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Celestial Tiger Entertainment

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Type
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Hong Kong

Founded
  
2008

Industry
  
Entertainment

Founder
  
William Pfeiffer

Parent organization
  
Saban Capital Group

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Formerly called
  
Tiger Gate Entertainment

Key people
  
Todd Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer

Products
  
Television channels, Films, Television programs

Brands
  
Celestial Movies, Celestial Classic Movies, Celestial Movies Pinoy, cHK, KIX, Thrill

Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) is a diversified media company based in Hong Kong that operates pay television entertainment channels in Asia and oversees Lions Gate Entertainment distribution rights in Greater China and Southeast Asia.

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Overview

Celestial Tiger was founded in 2008 as Tiger Gate Entertainment, as a joint venture between private media investment firm Saban Capital Group and independent company Lions Gate Entertainment. Pay television channels KIX and Thrill were later launched in August 2009.

Celestial Pictures Limited joined Tiger Gate Entertainment in late 2011 adding the already established Celestial Classic Movies and Celestial Movies to the company's channel lineup. Following this partnership, the company was renamed Celestial Tiger Entertainment and High Definition was added to existing channels for territories in Asia.

In 2013, cHK was launched in Singapore with Hong Kong celebrities Bernice Liu, Him Law and Liu Kai Chi hosting a media event to promote cHK as a Hong Kong general entertainment channel.

Lionsgate

CTE owns the Shaw Brothers film library and leverages a library of film and TV from Lionsgate. In February 2012, YOU On Demand Holdings and Lionsgate announced deal to show a number of Lionsgate films on a Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD) and Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) basis in China. In 2013, CTE sold over 1700 hours of Lionsgate TV series and movies including Anger Management, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and the Hunger Games franchise to broadcasters and media platforms in southeast Asia and China as part of a regional distribution deal, CTE also expanded its Southeast Asian distribution deal with Lionsgate to cover Japan and Korea and sold a further 700 hours of TV series and feature films in an SVOD deal with MediaCorp’s Toggle digital platform in Singapore.

Channels

Celestial Tiger Entertainment operates the following channels:

  • Celestial Movies - A channel featuring current Asian films and entertainment news
  • Available in Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore
  • Celestial Movies HD - A channel featuring current Asian films and entertainment news in HD.
  • Available in Malaysia, Brunei and coming soon to Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia.
  • Celestial Classic Movies* - Featuring classic Hong Kong Chinese films
  • Available in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei.
  • Celestial Movies Pinoy** - Filipino and English dubbed Asian movie channel distributed and marketed by Viva Communications.
  • Available only in the Philippines via Cignal Digital TV Channel 12.
  • cHK - Local Hong Kong entertainment and showbiz news channel
  • Available in Singapore and coming soon to Malaysia and Brunei.
  • KIX* - Action, MMA, TV series, reality television and extreme sports
  • Available in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore
  • Thrill* - Horror, thriller and suspense
  • Available in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and coming soon to Malaysia and Brunei.
  • Miao Mi* - Mandarin Kids Channel.
  • Available in Indonesia and Singapore (OTT Only)

    • * Distributed under ABS-CBN Cable Channels
    ** Joint Venture with Viva Communications

    References

    Celestial Tiger Entertainment Wikipedia
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